Cricket may not be the first sport you’d think to associate with Glasgow. But, perhaps surprisingly, the city has close links with the game dating back two centuries; in fact people were putting bat to ball on Glasgow Green back in… Read More ›
19th century poetry
“The Moving Finger writes…” Edward FitzGerald and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
“Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light” (First edition: 1859) These are… Read More ›
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
May 12th marks the birthday of artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882), one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Created in 1848 with John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, the group, which soon had seven members, defined themselves… Read More ›
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